 Hello Earth citizens. In this video, I will show you a 10 minute routine to open a blocked chest. This routine is taken from Ilchili's newest book, Water Up Fire Down. I'll drop a link in the description below how you can get a copy so you can follow along with these exercises that are taken from the book. So before we begin the exercise, let's do a quick self-check to see if your chest is blocked or to see if you have more blockage than you currently feel right now. First of all, can you feel some sort of stuffiness or heaviness in your chest? Maybe as you walk around in your daily life, you feel some kind of pent-up energy in your chest. That's a sign of blocked energy here. And also, do you generally feel yourself breathing from your chest rather than breathing from your abdomen? Many people think that it's normal or good to breathe from your chest because after all, we believe that the lungs are what bring breath in and out of your body. However, a truly healthy person does not breathe from the chest. That is because when your body is the most healthy, you are breathing from your abdomen, not from your chest. So if you're breathing very heavily from your chest in your daily life, chances are you are carrying stress and blockage here. So place your hands on your chest first. Breathe naturally. Without trying to change anything, no cheating. Breathe naturally and see where you're breathing from. Can you feel your chest going up and down? Next, get your thumb and place it right in between your two nipples, right in the center of your chest. This is your heart chakra. Pressing gently with your thumb. Rotate three times as you push in. Do you feel some kind of pain here? A soreness. That pain correlates to how much stress and blocked energy you carry on your chest. You can try going up and down your sternum all the way to your throat and see when I rub three times like this along my sternum, where do I feel heaviness? Where do I feel pain? Usually the place that we feel the most pain is right in our heart chakra right here in between our nipples. So the greater the pain here, the more stress your chest is carrying. So now that you've checked your body's current condition, let's work on releasing tension from your chest. So the first step to releasing tension here actually is releasing tension from another point called the 중 one point. So to find the 중 one point, place your thumb where your rib cage comes together. So right at the base where your rib cage comes together, place your ring finger on your belly button, and then naturally just curve your index finger in. And right where this falls, that's your 중 one point. This point needs to be nice and relaxed so that your chest can relax and your breath can go down to your abdomen. So before we open the chest, let's work on opening the June one point. So remember this point here. And now grab your three fingers, index middle and ring finger, curve them right on the June one point, and relax your shoulders, pump. Relax your abdomen too. Don't suck in and don't be tight like this. Relax and gently pump. Pump here. Do you see my abdomen going in and out? Pump like you're trying to unblock something in there. Let's do 30 times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 20. Don't forget to breathe. Don't hold your breath. Not like this. Relax. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 30. Next we'll do some June one opening while doing slower movements, focusing on our breath. So now you're going to push in here for a count of five as you exhale. So and then inhale, release for a count of five and then repeat. So exhale, notice how I'm continuously pushing in as I count to five in my head. Exhale for five. Inhale for five. Exhale for five. Inhale for five. Exhale for five. Try to push deeply inside. Inhale for five. Exhale for five. Inhale for five. Do you feel less pain here? One more last one. If you want to do this method a little bit easier, I have a handy tool I want to show you called belly button healing. It looks like this. I'll drop a link in the description so you can get this tool as well. Place this on your June one point and you're going to do the same thing, the pumping and then the breathing with the tool. It's much easier. You see how it brings less tension in my shoulders like this? So if you can, I recommend having this tool. You can use this to pump your June one point, loosen up tension here or use it to do the breathing exercises like we did. Exhale for five as you push in. Inhale as you release. Next, let's open up blockages in our chest. So make a fist, make one fist first. So with your right hand first, roll your thumb over your fingers like this so that your fist looks like this. So with this kind of fist, tap. Using the thumb side here, tap your chest. So since we're doing it with our right hand first, tap your left lump. Tap here 20 times. One, two, three, 20. Now switch left hand into a fist, tap your right lump. Great job. Now close your eyes, bring your palms in front of your chest and focus on the space between your palms and chest. If you're very sensitive to energy, you will feel some tingling sensation already in your palms. If you cannot feel a tingling sensation yet, rub your palms for 10 seconds. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Now face your palms towards your chest. Close your eyes, feel your chest. In your mind's eye, visualize a bright beam of light shooting from the middle of your palms into your chest. Warm energy from your palms seeps into your chest, into your lungs, into your heart. Send warm, loving energy to your chest. Imagine your chest filling up with bright golden light, all of your sadness, all of your worries, all of your anxious mind, your grief, your loneliness, all melt away from this warm golden energy you are sending your chest. Breathe naturally in and out from your chest. Feel the warm seeping in even deeper into your chest. Take a deep breath in through your nose. Exhale out through your mouth. Again, breathe in. Exhale through your mouth. Nice. Place your palms on your chest. Even with your eyes open, you can still feel your chest. Please tell yourself you did a great job. You're doing a great job. Many times we forget to compliment and recognize the good things that we're doing. You are doing a great job. So now feel your breathing. Feel your breathing naturally. Do you feel that your breath has gone a little bit slower and a little bit deeper? When your breath is a little bit slower and deeper, that is a reflection of a relaxed mind. When you're breathing fast and shallow and anxious like this, it means that your brain is hyperactive, not calm at all. So this is a great routine to check and to open up blockages in your chest. 10 minutes is a very short time, but feel free to take any segment of this routine and do it for longer. If you have some time, sit down, do it for longer to really focus on the energy of your chest and to release blockage here so that you can release the stress that's trapped in your body. You did a great job. These exercises were taken from the book Water Up Fire Down by Ilchili. Make sure you get a copy so you can read more in detail about the benefits and how to do these exercises from the book. To experience a full one-hour brain education-based class, please visit a local body and brain yoga studio near you.